10 - Divine Mandate

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    There were people who loathed one another.
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    Their corpses withered in the fields,
    their souls soaked in blood...
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    And their bonds were broken by blades...
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    Collapsed in the darkness,
    their sincerity wails...
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    "My beloved, please die..."
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    "My beloved, please die..."
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    Clouds shroud a night with a waning
    moon quivering in the haze
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    A cruel trap involving
    a pair of crucified fledglings
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    Oh, since smoldering feelings
    lie firmly in their hearts...
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    destruction!
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    Gently as the water, severely as a flower
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    pierce with a trembling blade
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    Even when I shut the fated
    tears deep within my eyes
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    my eyelids still remember you
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    "Divine Ancestral Mandate"
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    "Sunpu Castle"
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    So the Iga are leading, nine to six?
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    Yes...
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    Yes.
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    So four of the Kouga have
    already been slain...
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    "Hattori Kyohachiro"
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    The first to disturb the dew
    were the leaders of both sides...
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    ...Kouga Danjo and Iga-no-Ogen.
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    They killed each other by the
    Abekawa River outside the castle.
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    Right after they left...
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    What of their remains? Surely--
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    Yes, well...
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    After their deaths, they were both...
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    ...so I left them as they were.
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    I see.
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    Still...
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    The Iga Tsubagakure Group,
    which bears the fate of Takechiyo-gimi,
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    has the upper hand...
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    A mere two days have passed
    since the nullification of the pact.
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    This may well end sooner than anticipated...
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    Mataemon-dono.
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    There is still no telling
    how things will play out.
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    This is not a war between ordinary people...
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    Yes...
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    Those people truly were demons...
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    Don't worry...
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    It'll only hurt...
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    ...for a second!
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    I'll kill you...
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    ...Kouga scum!
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    To think I'd ever see
    eye-to-eye with Iga trash!
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    Simply thinking about it gives me chills...
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    Ordinary sword fighting
    would be child's play to them.
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    Tell me, who were the first ones
    to fight to mourn their lost leaders?
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    Right. A large man who
    looked very unlike a shinobi,
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    and a hunched-over old man.
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    My word...
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    However, neither was aware
    the pact had been nullified
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    or that Danjo and Ogen were dead.
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    They called it a game.
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    Don't write me off as some tub of lard!
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    Time to learn that even games
    can end with fatal results, Josuke!
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    The truce between Iga and Kouga
    disgusts me to no end!
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    What are you, a windbag?!
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    You spineless freak!
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    Hey, stretchy old geezer!
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    Who're you calling a spineless freak?!
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    Got you!
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    Seems you have more of a spine
    than meets the eye, old man.
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    It is proving rather
    difficult to break yours as well.
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    --Here I come!
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    --Here I come!
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    A-An old man who can
    freely stretch his limbs?
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    So, how did it end?
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    They were stopped by Danjo's
    grandson who was for some reason
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    with a Tsubagakure in the mountains
    at the Kouga-Iga border.
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    They called it a game, but left unchecked,
    one would have died...
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    This fight over succession...
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    To these two clans, who have
    long-held grudges with one another,
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    it has become an unparalleled
    chance for a justification for war!
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    Hotarubi! Koshiro's sickle!
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    What?!
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    Jimushi...
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    ...Jyubei!
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    Why can't we catch up?!
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    I suggest you release
    the scroll in your mouth...
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    Otherwise...
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    ...you cannot expel
    the spearhead in your throat.
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    Isn't that right...
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    ...Jimushi!
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    Tenzen!
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    There is no need for two of the same scroll.
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    The Kouga scroll was burned?
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    Yes.
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    So the fact that the one
    carrying it was killed
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    means the Kouga still do
    not know the war has begun?
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    That is correct.
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    Then that would explain why the Kouga
    failed to take the initiative.
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    They do not know that the
    anti-war pact was nullified.
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    But that means...
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    You do not appear happy, Mataemon-dono.
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    Quick thinking and scheming
    are the very essence of war.
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    Moreover, they are not warriors.
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    They are diehard spies.
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    Damn it!
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    Where are you?!
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    Udono Josuke is slain...
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    What's going on?!
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    That was a close one!
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    You're horrible, Akeginu!
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    What if I had died?
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    --Water!
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    --Now talk, Amayo!
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    Why would you try to kill Gennosuke-sama
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    when the Kouga and Iga
    are on the verge of peace?!
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    T-The Hattori family's... anti-war pact...
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    ...has been annulled...
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    What?! The Hattori family's pact?!
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    And?!
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    In short, the Iga... and Kouga...
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    The Iga and Kouga?!
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    The Kouga and Iga are what?!
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    Having a ninpou war!
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    I let my guard down!
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    W-What are you doing, Rosai?!
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    What is it?! What's going on?!
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    The wall spoke!
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    T-The wall!
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    Come out!
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    Intruders!
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    It's over! Strike them down!
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    Iga clansmen. Have you gone mad?!
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    You Kouga are the mad ones.
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    That was quite the welcome you gave us.
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    I simply ordered the
    capture of suspicious men.
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    It's very clear how
    the Kouga do things now!
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    Should you ever be mad enough to
    visit Iga Tsubagakure in the future,
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    know now that you'll be
    as warmly treated as we were here!
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    That is the extent of what I have witnessed.
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    I have arranged for my men to
    send word of any new developments.
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    The war is most likely becoming
    even more ferocious as we speak...
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    Speaking of ferocious...
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    The women's war in Edo is becoming
    more ferocious all the time...
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    2nd-generation shogun Hidetada-sama's
    eldest son Takechiyo-sama
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    is backed by his wet nurse, Ofuku-dono...
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    And the younger brother, Kunichiyo-sama,
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    is backed by the shogun's consort, Lady Oeyo.
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    Moreover, they have
    conflicting backgrounds...
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    The war is already a disease,
    as they involve guardians and statesmen
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    to further their deep-rooted antagonism.
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    Last winter, someone made
    an attempt on Ofuku-dono's life,
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    Kunichiyo-gimi was
    attacked at night not long after,
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    and just recently,
    Takechiyo-gimi's tisane was poisoned,
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    but without care for her own safety,
    Ofuku-dono sucked it out
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    with not a moment to spare...
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    These uproars know no end.
    What will become of Edo?
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    Worry not.
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    I understand the dice I have thrown.
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    Yes, sir!
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    Measures have been made in Edo, as well.
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    By which you mean?
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    I sent Tenkai in.
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    As men are forbidden to enter
    the inner palace, I found a priest
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    and placed him among the
    women to lay down the law.
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    So, let us wait until
    the ninja war is concluded.
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    What is it, Kyohachiro?
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    Don't tell me the war is already over?
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    N-No...
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    The war has changed its
    location to Iga Tsubagakure...
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    There is some conjecture in
    here that I cannot verify, but...
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    Halt!
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    Got him!
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    There you are!
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    Must be one of the Ten!
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    A return gift will save some face for me!
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    Speak obediently...
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    M-My hand won't come off!
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    W-Wench!
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    D-Damn you!
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    Take this to your grave!
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    A Kouga girl has been captured?
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    What?!
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    Damn you!
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    I must say, you impress me, Kouga girl...
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    But this is the end!
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    W-Why you!
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    I need to find more skin!
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    What?!
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    Tried some trickery, did you?
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    Do not make light of me, girl!
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    Such ominous intensity...
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    Kyohachiro.
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    Yes.
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    Koshiro! Please don't kill Gennosuke-sama!
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    At present, of the ten for each side,
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    the Iga group has seven survivors,
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    and the Kouga has five.
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    In regard to the anti-war
    pact's nullification,
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    the Kouga now know.
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    Now then, I will take my leave...
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    Where are you going?
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    I assigned my men to watch
    for me henceforth, but...
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    ...you now wish to view for yourself?
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    Yes.
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    Very well.
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    By your leave.
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    Iga Tsubagakure...
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    Kouga Manjidani...
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    Those elite twenty...
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    They might have been
    useful for the attack on Ozaka...
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    The mist of sorrow softly touches
    these lips blotted with red droplets
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    The mirror in the sky beautifully
    illuminates the distance in the night
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    Giving more than a passing thought
    to the myriad of showering stars
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    gently, the cords of a deep
    bond firmly, firmly bind them
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    Those beautiful eyes that
    sparkle with a lazuline hue...
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    Even if they wind up closed
    by a harbinger from the darkness,
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    since no one can steal
    the bridge of connected dreams
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    they still reflect the limitless tomorrow
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    "Next Time"
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    Alert eyes are shut, together with hope.
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    An honest spirit wriggles
    between affection and suspicion.
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    When the "light of death"
    shines in the abyss,
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    the howls of death throes will blame
    and torment the wandering heart.
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    The five Kouga. The seven Iga.
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    A deadly ninpou war trip on the Tokaido Road.
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    On the next Basilisk ~ Kouga Ninpouchou:
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    "Helpless Pebbles."